In school, year after year I have seen and heard Hong Kong children singing Christmas songs they hav
Copyright is a property right. It means that someone owns the right to make copies of a book, in the
AD (or A.D.) is short for Anno Domini. The term Anno Domini is Latin, meaning In the year of our Lor
The story of how English came to be, does not start with that island off the north-west edge of Euro
Shakespeare's England was very different from today. The English language had just become the la
Why do English teachers take William Shakespeare so seriously? Many people have written plays, books
Another fake, or badly taught, rule.
This week I will review a local English history book, The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. It answ
One simple rule: Don't
There are certain things that have no singular form. For various reasons they are countable, but nat
